Improvement in button gaiter-boots



57. A. 'BATCHELDER BUTTON GAITER-Boo'rs. K No.186,526. i Patented J'ILZB, 1877.

WITNEssEs. r nNvEN-ron.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. BATGHELDER, 0F SALEM, MASSAGHSETTS.

IM'PROVEMENT IN BUTTON GAlTER-BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lS-6,526, dated January 23, 1877; application filed September 20, 1876.

j following is a specification:

This invention relates to buttongaiter boots or shoes, and particularly to the button-holes, andto the manner ofi'orming the same, and consists of a button-hole which is re-enforced u and otherwise made, all as hereinafter particularly described.` Y 1 ln the drawings, Figure l is a View, in elevation, of' a gaiter-boot having button-holes of my improved form; and Fig. 2 represents a section through one of the button-holes.

In the drawings, A represents the upper of a gaiter-boot, made ot' leather in the parts B and C, and of cloth in the part D, all as ordinarily constructed. a the buttons, and b the button-holes. These button-holes b are in the cloth D, and in leather pieces or patches c, which are about eachbutton-hole ot' the cloth D, and there stitched, as shown by the dotted lines f in each case. These leather pieces are on the outside ofthe cloth, are of the general shape or outline of a button-hole, are first cemented to the cloth Where the button-holes should be made, and then there stitched, and through the Whole-that is, each leather'patch c and cloth upper D-a button-hole is punched By using a strong and durable cement the stitching of the patches c to the cloth upper D may be dispensed with; but the additionof the stitches is preferable.

I am aware that buttoirholes have been reenforced or strengthened by a cord or binding stitched to the same, and I do not claim,

broadly, the re-enforcing of button-holes; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A button gaiter-boot, provided with sepa- Vrate re-enforcing pieces ot'leather on theoutside around the button-holes, and secured to the upper, substantially as described.

JOHN A. BATCHELDER.

Witnesses l EDWIN W. BROWN, GEo. H. EARL. 

